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What are the two trends that you have noticed in the TV industry?
There is only one trend in Hindi television — when one show succeeds, many try to make more of the same. Some work, others don’t. In TV, there are no trends, there are only flavours of the season.
We have gone through a pandemic and it has changed the way we work. What more changes do you think we should incorporate when it comes to daily soaps?
We need to change the way we work. Ever since daily soaps started, people work under great stress to meet deadlines. Now with dailies becoming 6 days a week and budgets decreasing, the pressure is even more. Through the pandemic, people were shooting out of the state to put episodes on-air - at risk to their own health and staying away from their families. I am aware that we are in a business and no one does business to suffer losses. However, because of the diminishing budgets and increasing pressure to deliver more episodes, maha episodes, to deliver more TRPs, the working conditions lead to loss of health, both mental and physical, for all those who are working in front and behind the camera. Accidents due to lack of sleep, heart attacks, nervous breakdowns plague our industry, and no one talks about it. There is a lack of will to address that… collectively, which needs to change.
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